Prompt: What do you consider to be the characteristics of a strongly interactive system? What ideas do you have for improving the degree of user interaction in your p5 sketches?
Based on the reading, a strong interactive system would involve several cycles of listening, thinking, and speaking processes. He denied movie as interactive as the content does not alter based on audiences’ reactions. However, I strongly disagree his opinion as audiences choose to attend this movie to listen the expressions by the movie directors expressed through images and sounds, during the watching experience, movies would alter audience emotion along and this process, in my opinion, is interactive. i believe interactivity should be defined as a media’s ability alter the state of its audiences. And therefore a strong interactivity would be medias that have really strong ability to affect the audience whether it is through responding audiences’ input or itself would be strong enough to affect audience regardless of their reaction. There are several ways of affect audiences and we don’t have to limit the ways of interactivity like the author did.
To improve the degree of user interaction, I believe there are two aspects that I should consider most. First, the design itself should be full of aesthetics and would emotionally change the audiences’ states. Second, the design would change based on the user input to improve the level of engagement or concentration of the audiences.